Slidell man stabbed in attempted carjacking | Crime/Police

A Slidell man said he thought he was going to bleed to death in his own car after being attacked during an attempted carjacking. He said he tried to show kindness but the suspects took advantage.

It was an average afternoon and Anthony Ritter said he had just gotten home on his bike when suddenly, according to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office, 17-year-old Kemond Crawford showed up.

Ritter said Crawford “seemed like a nice, friendly young man.” He asked Ritter to borrow his bike to ride to the corner.

“I think I’ll take you one step further, I’ll take you for a ride,” Ritter said.

Ritter said he didn't know Crawford but was happy to help him because he's always been the type of guy who just wanted to help.

He said the teenager asked to run home before they left, saying: “So I go back and run around the corner where we went in and he's head peeking out, he's head looking out.” back, he sticks his head out, “He throws his head back,” Crawford said. “I said it shouldn't be that complicated, I'll just take you up the corner and then a friend of his will come with him. And so the thing changes from “Take” to “Can you take me to Waffle House?”

Officers say when Ritter opened the car doors for Crawford and his friend, 18-year-old Ca'ryane Anderson, he had no idea they would try to hurt him.

Ritter said: “I'm starting to feel a sting in my neck.” He says he was stabbed four to five times and that someone was watching over him in that terrible moment.

He said: “It's been unbelievable circumstances that I'm still here because after he stabs me, he gets out of the back seat, the guy in the front seat is freaking out because he's stabbing me. He gets out, they get in.” An argument broke out. He tried to remove the key from the ignition, but the car was not in park mode.

Ritter says at that moment he thought he was going to die, but he went into survival mode. He says he put his hand over his ear to stop the blood flow and drove himself to Slidell Memorial Hospital.

The sheriff's office said officers saw the two alleged suspects running in the area where the attack occurred.

After a brush with betrayal that nearly cost him his life, his ear is now covered in a bandage and scars line his neck. Ritter's kindness now watches over him. He said, “I'll call the police for you, I'll call someone else for you, but it won't be me, not anymore.”

Because he has learned that kindness is a gift worth protecting, the 66-year-old will do exactly that from now on.

The sheriff's office said Crawford and Anderson were each charged with attempted second-degree murder and attempted carjacking.